This module currently requires the ImageMagick PECL extension. This extension was abandoned for a period of time and for years did not have a compatible PHP 8.3 or 8.4 release.
Also, key hosting companies like Acquia and Pantheon only provide the ImageMagick binary and do not load the PECL extension. The main ImageMagick Drupal module → also does not use the PECL extension, and just calls the convert binary directly.
Attempt to use this module on PHP 8.3 or 8.4. Installing via pecl install imagick will fail (until a new stable release is created).
Although it looks like the PECL extension situation is almost sorted out and a PHP 8.3 and 8.4 release is likely to be available soon, it may be advisable to adopt the same approach used by other modules and leverage calling the ImageMagick binary directly, rather than using the PECL extension. It may also have some benefits of saving memory within the PHP processes, since the memory would be externalized to the executable.
Using the binary will probably make this module more widely accessible, considering the state of availability on Drupal-specific hosting companies and the state of PHP 8.3 and 8.4 support.
Refactor to use the binary convert instead of in-PHP objects.
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Documentation and requirements will need to be updated. This should probably be a new branch (i.e. 3.x), although any site that has the PECL extension probably will also have access to the binary, server configurations may vary.
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Added support for the graphicsmagick and imagemagick binaries. graphicsmagick is a newer and slightly faster fork, so it's checked for first, before falling back to imagemagick, and then the PHP extension.
The generated JPG files are slightly smaller but of similar quality.
Patch available here.